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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 28, 1963
Page
3
The Daily Record notes temperatures will average 5 to 10 degrees above normal through next Wednesday with hot and humid conditions. Friday night and Saturday bring partly cloudy skies, scattered thunder showers, with highs reaching the upper 80s to 90s and lows in the 60s to 70s. June totals and river stage data are listed along with several local court and service notices and new births.
Names listed include Glenn W. Smith William R. Bolton William Johnson Joe M. Cortez Francis A. Henderson Lee E. Kuch Ronald G. Sult the Rev Donald F. Caspers Edmund W. Emerson James and Ann Stookey and others. Ventura California birth reported Kenneth Miller son and family connections Cedar Rapids area persons appear in a sequence of social notices court mentions and fire calls with timed incidents at addresses around Cedar Rapids and surrounding towns.
Speeching Clifford Hud son of 5700 Ohio street SW fined 15 dollars and costs. Bernard J Steine of 1217 First avenue SW fined 25 dollars and costs. Douglas Farley of 2035 F Riverview street SE fined 10 dollars and costs. Robert Rohwedder of Wyoming forfeited 15 dollar bond. Excessive noise involved with Donald M Bonny 3373 Third avenue SE Bernard J Steine David J Bemer 2242 Coldstream avenue.
Fire swept a 21 story commercial building in Rio de Janeiro on Friday. At least seven people died and about 20 firemen were injured as many in the crowd watched people fall from the 14th and 18th floors while escaping by rope. Two helicopters rescued survivors from the roof.
Governor George Wallace promised a forceful stand at any public school threatened with integration. He did not specify actions and cited his past effort at the University of Alabama schoolhouse door, saying he would act with state dignity.
A naked youth rode a red bicycle up and down the 200 block of Twenty-third Street NW at 2:30 a.m. in 99 degree heat. Police searched the area but the unclothed rider had returned home before their arrival.
Double funeral set for Gingerich and Yoder boys after accidental drowning in a deep gulley channel near a pond. Victims Raymon Gingerich and John Yoder were described by officials as unable to swim. They had been in foster care through Johnson county welfare and were to be buried after services at Fairview Conservative Mennonite church north of Kalona.
An eight year old Toledo boy Arlen Russell Klenk died after being found at the bottom of the Tama Toledo pool. Authorities said drowning or suffocation from a snorkel may have caused the death. Rescue workers worked two hours before pronouncing him dead. An autopsy was planned for Friday. The boy was the youngest of eight children of Mr and Mrs Robert Klenk. Services: Saturday at 2 Hendersons.
A Peabody award winning biography of David Ben-Gurion airs at 9:30 Friday night on TV Nine. The program highlights the architect of Israel and his lasting impact on nationhood.
Agnes M. Houser 74 wife of John Houser of 1318 J Street SW Cedar Rapids died Thursday afternoon after a brief illness. Born March 1 1889 near Oxford she resided in Cedar Rapids since 1923. Survived by husband son Robert seven grandchildren one great grandchild two sisters and one brother. Funeral Monday at 9 9 30 at Janeba Kuba funeral home and St Ludmila church, burial at St. John's. Rosaries Sunday evening observed by church groups.
Mrs. C R Snow aged 84 died at a local hospital Thursday night after eight years in Cedar Rapids. She was a Methodist church member. Surviving are two daughters Mrs Charles Ridenour Cedar Rapids and Mrs Harold W Campbell Glen Ellyn Ill, two grandchildren and one great grandchild. Services 2 30 pm Saturday at Peffers Funeral Home Belle Plaine. Burial Oak Hill Cemetery Belle Plaine.
Florence Vorpahl widow of Dr. R A Vorpahl died in a Cedar Rapids hospital after a brief illness. Services to be announced at St Johns Church. Burial in Union Cemetery Milwaukee. Visitation at Beatty-Bearle funeral home after 7 p m Saturday. Memorials to St Johns Memorial Fund.
Williams Sarah Saturday service at St Matthew s church by Rt Rev Msgr J D Kearn. Burial Mt Calvary graveside by VFW. Friends may call at Brady chapel. Brennan Louis L Saturday service 9 30 at Kuba funeral home by Rt Rev Msgr An[ea ny W Chihak. Burial St John s Rosary 7 30 Friday. Hrekner Edward H Saturday 2 at Janeba Kuba funeral home by Rev William B Harnish. Burial Linwood.
Ben Heineman, chairman of the North Western Railway, said he will fight the proposed Rock Island Union Pacific merger. He plans to block the Pacific deal before the Interstate Commerce Commission and by appealing to Rock Island stockholders. He argued the link would hurt rail service to Chicago and the upper Mississippi valley. Heineman added the North Western does not plan to improve its Rock Island offer and merger talks with Milwaukee will continue.
A girl described as mentally retarded seeks admission to a state hospital in Woodward. A drowning was discovered when a girl reported seeing a boy go under water near the Hill motorcycle shop at 1247 Third Street NW. Five men and the shop owner rushed to aid, forming a chain and pulling the boy from the water fifteen feet offshore but he could not be revived. A first aid instructor arrived with an ambulance en route to Gerald Hill’s shop. The victim, born July 21 1958 in Galesburg Illinois, was a minor.
Cedar Rapids officials inform Hiawatha it must pay about 183200 for joining the Marion Cedar Rapids sewer system. Hiawatha council reports 75000 plus potential 75000 federal grant. no federal funds expected this year or 1964.
The obituary notes surviving relatives including his parents Earl Eugene Ester Lori siblings and grandparents in Muscatine Davenport and Rock Island. The body was moved from Teahen chapel to Range funeral home Davenport for Monday services with burial at Memorial Park Cemetery Davenport.
A $30 027 damage suit filed May 16 by Judy Furnish against Grayson Robinson Stores at 210 First Avenue SE was dismissed by Judge Donald P. Barnes. The judge ruled the suit must be brought by a guardian or next friend of a minor and that Furnish failed to prove non contributory negligence after injuring herself in a May 20, 1961 crash into a glass partition.
James H Sharpe at 2320 Grande avenue SE was named deputy assessor by Linn County Assessor Forrest Holveck. He will keep his real estate appraiser duties with no salary change and assumed the post immediately after passing a state exam. The other deputy is Roger Schrodermeier.
Judge Donald P. Barnes denied damages in the Ritchinson vs Cihla and Heusman suit for 27 660 28 and Heusman counterclaim 200 arising from a May 27 1961 motorcycle crash on a gravel road near Rochester. Kvindleg vs White damages 241 80 denied after trial before William Eads for a Jan 3 1962 two car collision in Collins Radio Co parking lot at Favenue NE and Hwy 150. Protein Blenders Inc vs Hebel judgment 218 60 on promissory notes.
Legal notice records a dismissed case between Miller Lumber Sales and Continental Forest Products Co over a $5,652.45 on account dispute. The action ends without judgment or further court steps.
MIAMI AP The exile organization reports that the number of refugees fleeing Fidel Castro's Cuba has surpassed 500,000 as of Friday.
City Attorney David McGuire says the Iowa home rule bill merely repeats long standing code and does not take effect until July 4. He notes it offers little authority to create a human rights commission and could restrict enforcement to jail.
In Athens Georgia an accident on a flood swollen Oconee river left eight people dead when a car driven by Mrs Barnett plunged over an embankment. Victims include J L Barnett Mae Watkins and four Epps children plus two Green children. The driver and a Green child escaped.
Richard Nixon met Pope Paul VI in a private audience at the Vatican lasting over 15 minutes. Nixon praised the pope as vigorous and youthful for his age 65, and was accompanied by Archbishop Martin O'Conner. The visit included reception of Mrs. Nixon and daughters Patricia 17 and Julie 14.
The agriculture department reported Friday that prices farmers received for crops and livestock increased 0.4 percent in the month ended June 15, lifting farm prices to 1 percent above a year earlier. Production and living costs were unchanged, staying 2 percent higher than last year.
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